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Data from a multi-parametric MRI study of patients with possible early-stage prostate cancer was assessed with a view to creating an efficient clinical protocol. Based on a correlation analysis suggesting that diffusion-weighted imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Ioannis Papadopoulos , Jonathan Phillips , Rhodri Evans , Neil Fenn , Sophie Schermer

Diffusion weighted imaging techniques permit us to infer microstructural detail in biological tissue in vivo and noninvasively. Modern sequences are based on advanced diffusion encoding schemes, allowing probing of more revealing measures…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chenxu Wu , Qingpeng Kong , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

The noise in diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) decreases the accuracy and precision of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) derived microstructural parameters and leads to prolonged acquisition time for achieving improved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Qiyuan Tian , Ziyu Li , Qiuyun Fan , Jonathan R. Polimeni , Berkin Bilgic , David H. Salat , Susie Y. Huang

Purpose: Noise in diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) is often spatially correlated due to different acquisition and reconstruction strategies, which is not fully accounted for in current denoising strategies. Thus, we propose a novel model-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Vinicius P. Campos , Diego Szczupak , Tales Santini , Afonso C. Silva , Alessandro Foi , Marcelo A. C. Vieira , Corey A. Baron

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is the only noninvasive method for quantifying microstructure and reconstructing white-matter pathways in the living human brain. Fluctuations from multiple sources create significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Shreyas Fadnavis , Joshua Batson , Eleftherios Garyfallidis

Patient scans from MRI often suffer from noise, which hampers the diagnostic capability of such images. As a method to mitigate such artifact, denoising is largely studied both within the medical imaging community and beyond the community…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Hyungjin Chung , Eun Sun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion MRI is commonly performed using echo-planar imaging (EPI) due to its rapid acquisition time. However, the resolution of diffusion-weighted images is often limited by magnetic field inhomogeneity-related artifacts and blurring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Jaejin Cho , Yohan Jun , Xiaoqing Wang , Caique Kobayashi , Berkin Bilgic

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder in which pathological changes begin many years before the onset of clinical symptoms, making early detection essential for timely intervention. T1-weighted (T1w) Magnetic…

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Diffusion MRI is a non-invasive, in-vivo biomedical imaging method for mapping tissue microstructure. Applications include structural connectivity imaging of the human brain and detecting microstructural neural changes. However, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Amir Sadikov , Xinlei Pan , Hannah Choi , Lanya T. Cai , Pratik Mukherjee

A large number of mathematical models have been proposed to describe the measured signal in diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and infer properties about the white matter microstructure. However, a head-to-head…

Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) is used to quantitatively characterize the microscopic structure of soft tissue due to the anisotropic diffusion of water in muscle. Applications such as fiber tractography or modeling of tumor spread in soft…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Nadya Shusharina , Xiaofeng Liu , Evangelia Kaza , Miranda Lam , Stephan Maier , Jonghye Woo

Purpose: To investigate feasibility of accelerating prostate diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) by reducing the number of acquired averages and denoising the resulting image using a proposed guided denoising convolutional neural network…

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Prior work on the Image Quality Transfer on Diffusion MRI (dMRI) has shown significant improvement over traditional interpolation methods. However, the difficulty in obtaining ultra-high resolution Diffusion MRI scans poses a problem in…

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a valuable imaging technique to study the brain in vivo. However, the resolution of dMRI is limited by the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of this technique. Various acquisition strategies have been developed to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Sajjad Feizollah , Christine L. Tardif

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an important neuroimaging technique with high acquisition costs. Deep learning approaches have been used to enhance dMRI and predict diffusion biomarkers through undersampled dMRI. To generate more comprehensive raw…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-11 Juanhua Zhang , Ruodan Yan , Alessandro Perelli , Xi Chen , Chao Li

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), especially functional MRI (fMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI), is essential for studying neurodegenerative diseases. However, missing modalities pose a major barrier to their clinical use. Although GAN- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Xiongri Shen , Jiaqi Wang , Yi Zhong , Zhenxi Song , Leilei Zhao , Yichen Wei , Lingyan Liang , Shuqiang Wang , Baiying Lei , Demao Deng , Zhiguo Zhang

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a widely used method for studying brain white matter development and degeneration. However, standard DTI estimation methods depend on a large number of high-quality measurements. This would require long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Davood Karimi , Ali Gholipour

Mapping white matter tracts is an essential step towards understanding brain function. Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is the only noninvasive technique which can detect in vivo anisotropies in the 3-dimensional diffusion of…

Computation · Statistics 2014-03-21 Dario Gasbarra , Jia Liu , Juha Railavo

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors in MRI scans is essential for reliable clinical diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Recently, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in image generation and segmentation…

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